Nina Czegledy and Inke Arns presented the material described in the
following text during the afternoon programme at V2_Organisation
Rotterdam on Sunday, January 21st, 14.00 - 18.00 hrs.

On an imaginary journey in the territories of current medical practice
and visual art, we observe the disintegration of former boundaries and
discover the emergence of a new discourse involving new metaphors and
new mythologies. In the course of this voyage we witness the
crystallization of a process which began in the Enlightenment and today
is linked together by electronic technologies. Mediated by television,
and lately the Internet, the concepts involved here, have contributed
to the construction of a simulated reality in both medical science and
art which imprisons attention and redirects it from the subject of the
activity reproduced.

This workshop follows on from the Moving Forest event on July 4 as a
coda, giving a time for reflection and for developing the argument and
experience of the work along other lines. It involves participants,
organisers and guests, and people from CCW, CCS, RADA and activists,
artists and others from across the sprawl.

Tuesday evening May 24 the theme issue (Im)Mobility of Open, Journal for Art and the Public Domain was presented at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, in combination with a screening of The Forgotten Space, a film by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, and a Q & A with filmmaker Noël Burch.

A public research trajectory tracing the legacies of Tactical Media and its connections to the present.

Tactical Media Connections is an extended trajectory of collaborative research tracing the legacies of Tactical Media and mapping the relationships between its precursors and its progeny. The program is realised through a series of meetings and exhibitions, culminating in the publication of a Tactical Media Anthology with contributions and dialogues ranging across generations and territories.

On March 22nd and 23rd 2013 the Institute of NetworkCultures will
organize the event Unlike Us #3. The aim of Unlike Us is to establish a
research network of artists, designers, scholars, activists and
programmers who work on 'alternatives in social media'. Unlike Us was
founded in July 2011. Through workshops, conferences, online dialogues
and publications, Unlike Us intends to both analyze the economic and
cultural aspects of dominant social media platforms and to propagate the
further development and proliferation of alternative, decentralized
social media software.

The Syndicate mailing list imploded and went down in August 2001, destroying the life-line of the Syndicate network. The network had been in a shaky situation for a while, due - we believe - to the destabilisation of the problematic balance between personal contacts of list members, lurking and filtering-and-not-reading-let-alone-posting subscribers, and a growing number of self-promoters who used the list as a personal performance space and disregarded the social rules of the online community.